Amnesty’s report, titled ‘Deadly but Preventable Attacks: Killings and Enforced Disappearances of Those who Defend Human Rights’ notes that since the Declaration on HRDswas adopted two decades ago, “human rights defenders across the globe have faced an onslaught of harassment, intimidation, ill-treatment, restrictions, unjust prosecution and detention – which continues to this day.” The report says that information compiled by non-governmental or community-based groups indicates that an estimated 3,500 human rights defenders have been killed globally since the declaration was adopted. The report also notes that “the trend appears to be worsening”. It cites data from Front Line Defenders, which protects human rights defenders at risk, showing that there were at least 281 killings in 2016, up from 156 in 2015 and 136 in 2014.

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For over 15 years, CJP has stood for the defence of rights and dignity of the voiceless and most marginalized sections of Indian society. Bringing alive the values of individual and collective freedoms and dignities enshrined in the Indian Constitution and its Preamble, CJP has stood for equality, dignity and non-discrimination of all Indians. We have intervened in the courts to ensure accountability of persons in power and in high office. Justice, we believe, is a prerequisite for lasting peace and social harmony ...read more